“My guess is the equipment left Libya and ended up in Syria, where it eventually ended up in the hands of ISIL.”
Well, there you go again.
Why would a Libyan-based Al Qaeda affiliate, engaged in the Libyan civil war, send munitions 1,000 miles away to their ISIS rivals in Syria? And how would those weapons get to Syria? Please check a map.
This was a Libyan civil war incident. Someone chose favorites and the local, out-of-favor Al Qaeda forces took exception. I believe it’s referred to as blow-back.
They were not.
We were.
We paid them for the collection of the arms. What happened to them?